Marianne van West, daughter of Hartog van West and Bloeme van West was born on 6 July 1906 in Amsterdam. There she married Mozes Abram, son of Simon Abram and Dina Agsteribbe, on 20 October 1926. Mozes was born in Amsterdam on 30 May 1903 and was a diamond worker by trade. Before her marriage, Marianne was a dressmaker and machine stitcher.
After their marriage was concluded, Mozes Abram and his wife Marianne van West lived at Kromboomsloot 34 in the old center of Amsterdam, moved in 1929 to Karel du Jardinstraat 48 II, and in August 1932 to Tweede Boerhaavestraatg 13 2nd floor. They lived there until they were deported to Sobibor in July 1943.
The Abram family was supposedly granted a “defer of deportation” on 9 July 1942. It was “just a family”, from which it cannot be deduced from remaining documents that there were specific reasons to exempt them provisionally from deportation. However, in the initial period after July 1942, when deportations were just getting started, deferments were handled and administered in an ad hoc manner
For the first transports, people received a call, with which they had to report. The call-up lists had been drawn up by the Central Office for Jewish emigration (Zentralstelle für jüdische Auswanderung), while a number of indispensable persons had been removed via the Jewish Council. There was little or no preparation time to set up a formal deferral procedure. The lists were drawn up by the Central office (Zentralstelle), but people could still be removed from those lists at the last minute by the Jewish Council. The first deferments were carried out in practice in this simple way. (source: Presumably on transport pp 37-3.2 et seq. by Raymund Schütz).
The registration cards of the Jewish Council of the Abram family show that they fell victim to the raid of 20 June 1943, which was secretly prepared by the Germans, in which 5542 Jews were rounded up in Amsterdam South and East. They were then taken by tramway to the Muiderpoort station. From there they left at three o'clock at night in a long passenger train and arrived at Camp Westerbork at nine o'clock in the evening.
The Abram family appears to have been registered in Westerbork the next day, 21 June 1943, and housed in one of the residential barracks. On 6 July they were deported to Sobibor in a transport of more than 2400 deportees, all of whom, including Mozes Abraham, his wife Marianna van West and their two children Dina and Harry, were immediately murdered in the gas chambers upon arrival on 9 July 1943. There were no survivors.
Sources include the Amsterdam City Archives, familyregistration cards of Mozes Abram, archive cards of Marianne van West, Mozes Abraham and of Harry and Dina Abram; residence card of the Amsterdam Karel du Jardinstraat 48; Wikipedia website “the Great Raid of 20 June 1943”; Publication “Presumably on Transport, chapter 3 - Nov. 2010/2011 by Raymund Schütz; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Mozes Abram, Marianne Abram-van West and Dina and Harry Abram and the Wikipedia website Jew transports from the Netherlands.